. A short history of the Italian Waldenses who have inhabited the valleys of the Cottian Alps from ancient times to the present. hundred warriors overLake Leman, and the ten days of fatigue,war, and pain on the mountains of reached, at last, the borders of theirvalleys, and in the first town took down thedoor of a church to make a pulpit outside forArnaud to preach from. Driven back by the soldiers of the Duke ofSavoy to Balsille, they defended themselveson that mountain all the winter, and foundthere a crop of ungathered corn, covered by amerciful Providence until then by the snow.
. A short history of the Italian Waldenses who have inhabited the valleys of the Cottian Alps from ancient times to the present. hundred warriors overLake Leman, and the ten days of fatigue,war, and pain on the mountains of reached, at last, the borders of theirvalleys, and in the first town took down thedoor of a church to make a pulpit outside forArnaud to preach from. Driven back by the soldiers of the Duke ofSavoy to Balsille, they defended themselveson that mountain all the winter, and foundthere a crop of ungathered corn, covered by amerciful Providence until then by the by the fogs and winds and rains andsnows, which, a French officer said, seemedto be at their command, they resisted formonths the attacks of an army of fifteenthousand or twenty thousand men. Retreat-ing from their barricades, fighting inch byinch, and at last driven to the very summitof Balsille, hope seemed lost. But one of their captains led them, aidedas usual by a fog, which hid them from theirenemies, along the edge of a from that snare, they saw nothingbefore them but to wander from one moun-. VICTOR AMEDEUS II. DUKE OF SAVOY ANDPRINCE OF PIEDMONT. From an engraving by De lAmerssini. Published in Paris, 1684 The Glorious Return in 1689 93 tain to another, until all had left their bonesin the snow. But a great deliverance awaited them, andthat very day they heard the wonderful tid-ings that Victor Amedeus had joined theleague of their friend, William of Orange. The siege of Balsille excited the wonderof Napoleon I., who considered it one of thegreatest military deeds in history. Yet it isregarded with indifference by the thirty mil-lion inhabitants of Italy, few of whom haveheard of it or know the glorious history ofthe Waldenses. They returned to their beloved valleys, andwith joy remembered the Psalm, — If it hadnot been the Lord who was on our side, nowmay Israel say . . when men rose up againstus then they had swallowed us up quick, whentheir
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